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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT Ordnen.

ALFRED MARQUIS AND HEINRICH `HAHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

. PHYSICIANS MEDICINE-CASE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,812, datedNovember 8, 1887.

Application filed March 27, 1886. Sem'al No. 196,868. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALFRED MARQUIS and HEINRICH HAHN, of thecity,county,and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Physicians Medicine- Cases, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a medicine-case for physicians, in which therows of bottlesin the resents a plan View of our improved physiciansmedicinecase with the lid in open position. Figs. 2 and 3 are verticaltransverse sections of the case on 4line a: x, Fig. l, showing the same,respectively, in closed and open position; and Fig. 4. is a frontelevation of the medicine-case drawn on asmaller scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Our improved medicine case consists of a body, A, that is provided witha hinged front, B, and a'hinge'd lid, C, which are connected to eachother by a suitable locking device. The inside of the hinged front Bissupplied with suitable sockets, d, for a row of bottles, D, which arepreferably the smaller bottles,while in the body A are supported, in afixed andpartitioned case, d', a row of larger bottles, D', and back ofthe same are vertically-movable rows of bottles D2 D3, which aresupported in partitioned cases d2 d, The hindmost case, d3, is connectedat both ends,by pivot-links e,with

links e', that are pivoted to lugs e2 of the lid C, so that when the lidis opened the case P and` bottles D3 are lifted bodily, so as to projectabove the' body A, as shown in Fig. 3,

. while when closingthelid C the case d3 and bottles D3A are lowered totheir normal position in the body A, as shown in Fig. 2. The case d3 isconnected, by horizontal strpsf, that are attached to the end walls ofthe same and provided with hook-shaped ends f', to the slotted end wallsof the intermediate case, d2, so that when the hindmost row of bottleshas been lifted to such an extent that the strips f ar- Y rive at theupper end of the slots f? of theL case 0l'l the latter and the bottlesD2 are also raised to a certain distance from the bottom of the body A,and thus supported intermediately between the hindmost row and the fixedfront row of bottles in such a manner that the rows are arranged in stepshape one above the other, as shown in Fig. 3.

' When the front of the case with its bottles is lowered and the lidopened, all are in full view, so that the labels can be easily read andany requiredbottle be readily removed for use.

For closing the case, the front B is moved up again and the lid closed,whereby the hindmost row of bottles and then the intermediate row arelowered until the cases of the same arrive at the bottom of the body A,as shown in Fig. 2. When the case is opened, all the bottles in the sameare arranged in rows, of which one row is above the other in the samemanner as if they were arranged on shelves, whereby the bottles can bemore conveniently handled and the compounding of medicines by thephysician greatly facilitated.

We do not desire to claim, broadly, the conibination, with the body of amedicine-case, of upwardlymovable bottle-trays arranged side by side, ahinged lid, and connections between the lid and one of the trays andbetween the tray and one or more other trays, whereby the opening orclosing of the lid causes the successive rising or lowering of two ormore of the trays. Y

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, in a medicine-case, of abody, a row of bottles supported in a fixed case, an intermediate row ofbottles supported in a movable case having slotted ends, a hindmost rowof bottles supported in a case, said case having horizontal guide-stripsthat engage the slotted ends of the intermediate case, a hinged lid, andpivoted links by which the lid is connected to the hindmost case, so asto successively raise the hindmost and intermediate rows of bottles onopening the lid and arrange them in step shape above the fixed row ofbottles, substantially asset forth.

2. The combination, in a medicinecase, of the body having a hinged frontlid with bot- IOC tles supported at the inside of the Same, a row Intestimony that we claim the foregoing as of bottles supported in a fixedcase, an interour invention we have signed ou]` naines in mediate row ofbottles supported in a. movable presence of two subscribing witnesses.oase having slotted ends, a hindmost row of 5 bottles supported in amovable case having ALFRED MARQUIS. guide-strips engaging the slottedends of the HEINRICH HAHN.

intermediate case, a hinged lid back of the hindmost row, andpivot-links connecting the Witnesses: lid with the ease of the hindmostrow of bot- SIDNEY MANN,

1o tles, substantially as set forth. MARTIN PETRY.

